Sacco and Fatebenefratelli hospitals in Milan under hacker attack
What happened to the Sacco and Fatebenefratelli hospitals in Milan. The comment by Umberto Rapetto, director of infosec.news
It all begins with a "Vespone" whose wheels get stuck in the tram rails and with the driver who – with severe pain in his ribcage and a large hematoma in the hip – tells his relatives that he has been on a stretcher in the ER for hours.
The delay is not due to the ordinary problems of the much-complained "medical malpractice" but would be the reverberation of a computer accident, one of the many that you don't even notice anymore if you don't feel the thrill of paying the price personally.
The story concerns two of the most important hospitals in the Lombard capital, the "Luigi Sacco" and the "Fatebenefratelli", which are probably called upon to deal with a virus that has nothing to do with Covid-19 (the latter, in fact, fortunately eradicated with the issue of the "liberatutti" legislative provision).
There are those who tell of patients with "emergencies" transferred to the Policlinico of the Lombard capital and in any case the website of the Healthcare Company is unreachable from the evening of May 1st.
We are talking about Milan, the highly efficient city of the Madonnina (and who knows how many people are "detaching" in these hours …), of what two years ago Corriere della Sera called the " European capital of cybersecurity " only because a company l 'had the choice to make us a technological museum …
We are talking while the institutional solons and those of the big consulting firms continue to candidly repeat "gheendi mi" and announce future strategies for a war that has not only started some time ago but where they are playing for good reason.
Those who have government responsibilities legitimately have other priorities, but perhaps cybernetics should also be among the issues not to be postponed further. Too much time has been lost (and still is lost) despite Gabrielli and Colao talking about a trivial 95 per cent of the IT systems of the Public Administration that are unprotected.
It's the old story of the three little pigs struggling with the big bad wolf. Until recently, the scene was dominated by the one who built his house with straw.
Now they want us to believe that thanks to the wooden house ( the Cyber Agency ) there will be no risk of having the most robust protective walls swept away.
Those who, like me, remained a child, however, remember the rest of the fairy tale and expect the situation to be handled by the pig who builds using lime and bricks …
Perhaps those who pontificate are right and not those who look with concern at an objectively not very reassuring horizon.
There is certainly a lot to do. Surely, however, we must do it perhaps avoiding triumphalistic announcements that we are ready for the challenge.
You are not in a university classroom where from the chair you can afford to discuss about anything and freshen the imagination of those present with "guidelines" and "best practices". Above all we are not in the classroom where Indiana Jones is giving the lesson and the enchanted students blink frantically or write "I love you" on their eyelids …
If you have doubts about the state of national precariousness, it is known that – just to stay on the subject of health information systems – for a few days the cyber pirates of the notorious Lockbit 2.0 group (the same that devastated the ULSS 6 of Padua ) have put up for sale the data they stole from the Messina Health Authority …
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/ospedali-sacco-e-fatebenefratelli-a-milano-sotto-attacco-hacker/ on Tue, 03 May 2022 14:25:18 +0000.